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  • Garmin and Other Services

    Garmin and Other Services

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I wore the Suunto Peak 5 alongside the Apple Watch SE rather than the Apple Watch SE and Garmin device as I usually would. The reason for this is that I want to continue playing with Suunto devices, and I’d like to wean myself off of the Apple Watch, for at…

  • Immich and iPhone Storage

    Immich and iPhone Storage

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen experimenting with the Immich iPhone app I found it impossible to upload beyond 15,000 images and I supposed that it was because the phone timed out before it had checked all the previous files before moving on to the last four thousand images. In reality the problem is that Immich downloads…

  • The iOS Astronomy Wallpaper and Seasons

    The iOS Astronomy Wallpaper and Seasons

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re wondering why one of the tags in my post is “Day 388” it’s because I shifted from WordPress to ClassicPress once again. In so doing I lost access to Akismet and Jetpack. By losing Akismet I lose comment spam filtering. I also lost access to the Jetpack app so I…

  • Apple Reading Goals

    Apple Reading Goals

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI am confused by Apple reading goals because they measure how many days you have reached your goal, as well as how much you read for the current day, but once today is yesterday it loses all of that information. It tells you that you have a. streak but you have no…

  • I Completed the Apple May Activity Challenge Yesterday

    I Completed the Apple May Activity Challenge Yesterday

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI completed the Apple May Activity Challenge yesterday. The goal was to walk or run 349 kilometres within one month. I finished this challenge two days early. Using the Apple Watch Series 3 and the SUUNTO Spartan Sport Wrist HR BARO I tracked all of my activities. For the first two or three weeks…

  • 100 Move Day Goals reached

    100 Move Day Goals reached

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have 100 move day goals reached. The difficulty of this goal depends on how high you set the bar. If you set the bar at two hundred calories a day then the goal is easy to achieve. If you set the goal at 500 or 600 calories then the achievement is…

  • Planned Obscolesence as Fragility

    Planned Obscolesence as Fragility

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI want to discuss Planned obsolescence as fragility. In the days of Nokia you could buy a phone and give it to a teenage boy and expect it to survive without breaking. I know because I was a teenage boy with a Nokia phone. So were plenty of my peers. It was…

  • Indoor Climbing and the Apple Watch

    Indoor Climbing and the Apple Watch

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIndoor Climbing and the Apple Watch are a bad mix. They are a bad mix because the Apple watch has an unprotected glass screen. The screen is so exposed that last Thursday I shattered the screen without realising until I got home and tried to use it but the capacitive screen did…

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Apple

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI have read numerous articles and I think that Corporate Social Responsibility and Apple are hot topics at the moment. When it was found that European firms were cheating on their emissions reports it was a great scandal and the European and German automotive industries took a financial hit. Their cheating cost…

  • The Apple Watch does not fill a niche

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Apple Watch rather than fill a niche provides a fifth screen. According to Wikipedia the four first screens are the cinema screen, the television screen and the mobile phone and tablet screen. The fifth screen is the smart watch as designed by Apple, Samsung, Sony and others. Apple and others have designed…